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OpenAIRE ist der größte Aufbereiter von EU-geförderten und anderen, nationalen Forschungsergebnissen. Es unterstützt Open Science in ganz Europa und bietet außerdem bedarfsbasierte Services wie beispielsweise den OpenAIRE Research Grafph für Forschungsgemeinschaften, Content Provider und Förderer. Im Jahr 2009 wurde OpenAIRE als Projekt der Europäischen Kommission zur Begleitung des wissenschaftlichen Prozesses in Richtung Open Access und Open Science etabliert. Das Akronym OpenAIRE steht für "Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe". Durch seine Infrastruktur stellt OpenAIRE On-Demand-Dienste für Forschungsgemeinschaften, Institutionen und Förderer bereit. Ein wichtiger Schritt hin zur Verstetigung der OpenAIRE-Initiative stellt die Gründung der gemeinnützigen Organisation "OpenAIRE AMKE" im September 2018 dar. OpenAIRE stellt damit die Präsenz seines europaweiten Open-Science-Netzwerks und den Betrieb seiner partizipativen Infrastruktur für offene wissenschaftliche Kommunikation auf eine stabile Grundlage. Die OpenAIRE AMKE bildet sich aus Mitgliedseinrichtungen, wobei das Prinzip gilt: pro Land eine Stimme. Um die demokratische Partizipation auf nationaler Ebene zu ermöglichen, ist die Bildung von nationalen Konsortien vorgesehen. In Deutschland wurde 2019 ein National Members Consortia (NaMeCo) gegründet mit dem Ziel, Synergien um Open-Access- und Open-Science-Initiativen im Land zu schaffen. Das deutsche NaMeCo setzt sich derzeit aus der Universität Göttingen, der Universität Bielefeld und der Universität Konstanz zusammen. Alle drei Einrichtungen spielen bereits eine aktive Rolle im derzeit laufenden Projekt OpenAIRE Advance, als Kommunikations- und Netzwerkkoordinator, als Verantwortliche für die Datenaggregation in OpenAIRE und Aufgaben im Bereich "towards a scholarly commons", sowie als National Open Access Desk (NOAD) für Deutschland. Über das NaMeCo werden sie gemeinsam die Verankerung von OpenAIRE im Land fördern und eine solide Grundlage für die Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Institutionen und ...

The EU faces a serious crisis of democratic legitimacy. Citizens believe that the EU is run by distant and non-responsive political elites. The EU's perceived lack of responsiveness to ordinary citizens poses a threat to its very survival. This timely book presents a comprehensive account of how EU governments signal responsiveness to the interests of their citizens over European policies. Schneider develops and tests a theoretical framework of the intergovernmental dimension of responsive governance in the European Union, using evidence amassed over nearly ten years of multi-method research. The findings show that European cooperation in the Council of the European Union takes place in the shadow of national elections. Governments signal responsiveness to their publics by taking positions that are in the interests of politically relevant voters at the national level, defending these positions throughout negotiations in the Council, and seeking appropriate policy outcomes at the EU level.

This article examines the political geography of state building in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The absence of interstate war has produced a unique situation for contemporary state builders in Africa—they have inherited states with relatively fixed borders encapsulating a variety of environmental and geographic conditions, compounded by varying distributions of population densities. The author examines the effects of a variety of strategies that African rulers have employed to enhance their state-building efforts given the type of national design they inhabit. These strategies include the allocation of citizenship, interventions in land tenure patterns, and the adoption and management of national currencies. The author tests the effects of these strategies on several dimensions of state capacity in sub-Saharan Africa from 1960 to 2004 using a variety of statistical analyses. The results indicate that the strategies currently adopted by African rulers have generally failed to substantially augment their capacity.

"Lisa Pine's Hitler's 'National Community' explores German culture and society during the Nazi era and analyses how this impacted upon the Germany that followed this fateful regime. Drawing on a range of significant scholarly works on the subject, Pine informs us as to the major historiographical debates surrounding the subject whilst establishing her own original, interpretative arc. The book is divided into four parts. The first section explores the attempts of the Nazi regime to create a Volksgemeinschaft ('national community'). The second part examines men, women, the family, the churches and religion. The third section analyses the fate of those groups that were excluded from the Volksgemeinschaft. The final section of the book considers the impact of the Nazi government upon German culture, in particular focusing on the radio and press, cinema and theatre, art and architecture, music and literature. This new edition includes historiographical updates throughout, an additional chapter on the early Nazi movement and brand new primary source excerpt boxes and illustrations. There is also expanded material on key topics like resistance, women and family, men and masculinity and religion. A crucial text for all students of Nazi Germany, this book provides a sophisticated window into the social and cultural aspects of life under Hitler's rule "--

Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the new states of Central Asia have been obliged to adjust their institutions to new symbolic frontiers and to take into account the independence they achieved in 1991. Both universities and Academies of Sciences have been called to reconsider their research policies and to orient them in order to respond to emerging national issues. The building of national narratives is a particularly relevant object of study in observing the various modes of legitimization of the Central Asian states and the scientific instruments they deem necessary for their political validation. The aim of this paper is to overcome the apparent, albeit actual, character of a number of changes that have taken place in Uzbekistan since 1991, in order to demonstrate the continuity of personal, institutional, and intellectual lines uniting contemporary research to that conducted during Soviet period. The preference accorded to ancient history, the praise of the originality and long heritage of the people, and an obsession with ethnogenesis, all are rooted in the contemporary narrative of the previous regime. They invite a reconsideration of the past two decades in a more nuanced manner and a rereading of the Soviet past in order to understand the process of building the nation-state, which has now been underway for more than half a century.

Studied are the structures of documentation & statistics in Tunisia since independence. (An abstract of the first part of this series, concerning Australia & authored by D. S. Ironmonger, appears elsewhere in this issue). Postwar reconstruction did not seriously begin until 1967 when the Dept of Planning was established. The proliferation of institutions & publications is noted & the scattered, uncoordinated & overlapping nature of documentation centers discussed. The principal centers for the production of basic economic & social data are the Ministry of Planning, the National Instit of Statistics, the Central Bank, & the research, statistics & planning departments of the ministries. The role played by private parties is small, in view of state control & the fact that the administration is the main user of the data. Distribution of the data is discussed. The predeliction for statistics is noted. Of the 97 documentation centers studied, 57 are concerned with economics, 37 with sociological subjects, & 19 with legal issues. There are about three times as many French language publications as Arabic ones. The storage of information is discussed. National census records are destroyed after a few years for lack of space, staff & resources. Dissertations, file card indexes, & research project material are not kept. The inter-university lending system, the copyright deposit system, microfiche & microfilm services are examined & their limitations noted. 1 Table, 2 Appendixes. A. Rubins

Australian policies are usually formulated in terms of specific national interests related to Asia. These may be grouped in three categories, which I shall call security, economy, and identification. The three are separate, but point in much the same direction: in whichever of these categories an Australian views his country's future in Southeast Asia, he sees its interests as involving preservation and enlargement of Australia's present character. There is room for argument about details and interpretation, between the intellectual and the man in the street, and between one political party and another. At times these arguments are heated, especially when the question of security is being debated. But, basically, Australians want to go on being as they are in the place where they are. Although they recognize the actual and symbolic importance of Southeast Asia, their national interests demand that they be not submerged or impoverished by influences from that direction. Their position is, in essence, a defensive one, but capable of a good deal of initiative. While it is often expressed as a position involving only Southeast Asia – because that is the closest part of Asia, the one which Australians know best, and is often used as a synonym for Asia at large — the Australian position towards Asia as a whole is much the same.

The article covers contemporary history of Uzbekistan and tells about matters from national revival to national exaltation. It tries to identify the factors contributing to national elevation. The state of security of independence and social order is shown as important factors of national exaltation. The tasks of historical science in ensuring stability and fair social order are determined. In this case, the main focus is given on the development of knowledge about control activities, which serves in the establishment of social order. It is substantiated that knowledge about control contributes to the effectiveness of control activities as an integral part of public administration.